As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,
And none could be unhappy but the great.
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Prologue. Compare: "None think the great unhappy, but the great", Edward Young, The Love of Fame, satire 1, line 238.Nicholas Rowe
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'And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations' (Revelation 2:26). I see myself on a throne. Why should a throne be made of gold and velvet? Can it not as well be the few planks of a prisoner's bed? Men have given a certain kind of chair the name of "throne." I can give this name to any other object I please. From this my throne I decide about nations.
Richard Wurmbrand
In heaven His throne is made of gold,
Where the ark of His testament is stowed,
A throne from which I'm told all history does unfold,
Down here it's made of wood and wire,
And my body is on fire,
And God is never far away.Nick Cave
In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius
And amongst us one,
Who most has suffer’d, takes dejectedly
His seat upon the intellectual throne.Matthew Arnold
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made man to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. (122)
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